BRITISH POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 242, 18 November 1909, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

A DISORDERLY' MEETING. By Cable.—Press ABsociat-oa.—Copyrigitt Loudon, November l*i. Ah-. W. Horn, of the Hank of Adelaide, in a letter to the Standard, mclosing 100 guineas for the Unionist Workiugman Candidaleb' Fund, said apparently in the Socialist theory nobody was entitled to anything except the man who had not not it. Possibly soon in England it would be held trimI innl to own anything except a vote— I and not even that except pledged to the Socialist party. SIR ROBERT PERKS. London, November 10. I Sii Robert Perks, Liberal member for I Louth Division of Lincolnshire, has declined to reconsider his decision not to seek re-election.

LOUD CHARLES! BERESFORD. London, November It). The Unionists of Portsmouth are inviting Lord Charles Beresford to eontest the bye-election, Received November 1)7, 10.5 p.m. London, November 17. Lord Charles Beresford lias accepted the invitation to stand for Portsmouth. The Conservative and Unionist organisation gave him a unanimous invitation to contest the vacancy. A RL'SETPORSEATS. I Received November 17, 10.5 p.m. London, November 17. Forty thousand applications were made for-15000 seats in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, to hear Mr. Balfoul at Manchester to-night. AN INVITATION ACCEPTED. Received November 17, 10.5 p.m. London, November 17. Mr. Winston Churchill (President W the Board of Trade) has accepted the Lancashire-Cheshire Liberal Federation's invitation to speak there in December.